Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

There are researchers out there who say that they do. Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. Tags: animal behavior primates. I certainly think they can laugh and have fun. I've seen it. From Cosmiclog at MSNBC.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. Other facilities are operating in the U.S.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week. Tags: chimpanzees poaching congo endangered species.

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